Yes, dial-up internet, with those screechy, crackly tones, remains a useful tool in areas where modern, high-speed internet services are either unaffordable or unavailable.

If you’re a sporadic internet user, Juno even allows you to use 10 hours of dial-up internet for free each month. There may also be local companies that offer internet.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s two top dial-up Internet providers are jumping into different lifeboats as the broadband Internet wave threatens to sink their leaky business models. It remains ...

That's how many old-fashioned dial-up Internet services are being offered to Egyptians to get around the government's shutdown of the Web, according to French Data Network. Internet traffic in ...

The Pew Research Center reports that around 3% of American Internet users are still using dial-up services as their means for going online, a percentage that hasn’t change since 2011.

Over coffee this week, my friend mentioned the internet provider NetZero might still offer dial-up service in the Triangle. I was shocked, but sure enough, the company lists several access numbers ...

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